Arts Studies (16ARTM)

Description

CHASS offers an academic minor in Arts Studies to all majors in the University. This interdisciplinary minor is designed to enrich the student’s university experience, to serve as a foundation for learning and understanding in the arts beyond the university years and to provide a line of thinking and skill development that may contribute to the development provided by the student’s courses in the major or that by be only loosely related to the major. This minor provides the student with a fundamental understanding of the historical, theoretical and practical disciplines of the arts. No courses for the minor may be taken for S/U credit.

Requirements

18 credit hours must be taken to complete this minor.

Students design their minor from the following courses in consultation with the minor advisor.

The courses selected for the minor must balance work in 3 areas: history, criticism and theory, and application (studio or performance courses).

Each Art Studies Minor program will be reviewed and approved by the Arts Studies Advisory Council.

A maximum of ONE (1) course may be used (double-counted) towards both departmental major requirements and minor requirements.

Required Courses

NONE

Elective Courses

The following list of courses is illustrative, not exhaustive. Students may find other courses that they wish to include in their Arts Studies minor program. Students should be aware that some of the below courses have one or more prerequisites and that some of them are restricted to students in a certain major. Enrolling in the Arts Studies minor does not guarantee students that they will be accepted in these courses.

Admissions

Students may declare their intention to complete the Arts Studies minor by contacting Dr. Rodney Waschka, advisor for the minor, as listed below. Formal admission to the minor occurs when the Arts Studies Council has approved the student’s selection of coursework for the minor.

Certification

Dr. Waschka will certify the minor prior to graduation. The minor must be completed no later than the semester in which the student expects to graduate from his or her degree program. Paperwork for certification should be completed no later than during the registration period for the student’s final semester at NC State.